 November 16, 2006 – The iL-90MV was the first of a few things from abit:
Number 1: It was the first board to feature built in HDMI, which integrates both video and audio in one interface.
Number 2: It was the first abit motherboard to feature the OTES™ Stream technology, developed by abit.
Number 3: It is simply an awesome mATX motherboard featuring the Intel® ViiV technology that outperforms others while remaining very silent at the same time.
Hot Hardware approaches the IL-90MV: "The newly re-born and re-energized abit is never one to fear risk, however, and they've produced a board which may very well be the best motherboard to date for home theater PC's … the board offers low noise, low power, low-heat, tons of audio/video output options, and a Micro-ATX form factor to boot. Best of all, abit has delivered this board at a surprisingly reasonable price point."
Concerns about the exclusion of the PCI-E x16 port arise but Hot Hardware felt that this isn't much of a problem: "This board certainly isn't designed for the high-end power user or gamer. For home theater users, the onboard Intel GMA950 graphics are plenty good enough to handle the latest high-end digital media."
Another big question posed by the user may be: "Is the Intel GMA950 processor powerful enough to push true HD (1080p) content at full resolution without slowdowns?' Somewhat surprisingly, that answer is a big yes. The Intel GMA950 more or less offloads most (if not all) of the processing onto the main system CPU, so if you have a fast enough processor in the system, you can easily push 1080p content from this motherboard."
Without further ado, Hot Hardware believes that "The board runs extremely quiet, consumes very little power, and has plenty of high-end audio/video output ports to satisfy the needs of nearly every home entertainment center … The IL-90MV comes as close as we've seen yet to being the perfect home theater PC motherboard. Beyond the basic core system components (CPU, memory, hard disk), there really aren't any major features which one needs to add to this motherboard in order to have an HD-ready home theater PC system … This board impressed us greatly. We're giving the abit IL-90MV a 9 on the Heat Meter and hope this won't be the last HTPC-oriented board from abit"
 abit's answer: It won't be!!!
For the full review, go to: Hothardware.com
For more information on the iL-90MV, go here: Universal abit iL-90MV | 
